North East Nigeria
Adamawa State
Yola North

Yola

Yola is the capital city of , . With a population of 337,000 in 2010, it is the largest city in Adamawa State. It is also the seat of the traditional Adamawa emirate.
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  • Type: City with 337,000 residents
  • Description: City in Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Yola, Nigeria”

Places of Interest

Highlights include American University of Nigeria.

University
Photo: SmartAfricanBoy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a private university in Yola the capital of , Nigeria. It offers an American-style liberal arts higher education at undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels.

Yola

Latitude
9.2089° or 9° 12′ 32″ north
Longitude
12.4802° or 12° 28′ 49″ east
Population
337,000
Elevation
180 metres (591 feet)
IATA airport code
YOL
United Nations Location Code
NG YOL
Open location code
6FXJ6F5J+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501540901
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2318044
Wiki­data ID
Q994114
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Yola” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Yola”
  • Arabic: “يولا”
  • Armenian: “Յոլա”
  • Asturian: “Yola”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yola”
  • Bengali: “ইয়োলা”
  • Catalan: “Yola”
  • Cebuano: “Yola (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Yola”
  • Chinese: “約拉”
  • Chinese: “约拉”
  • Croatian: “Yola”
  • Danish: “Yola”
  • Dutch: “Yola”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “يولا”
  • Esperanto: “Yola”
  • Finnish: “Yola”
  • French: “Yola”
  • Fulah: “Yola Woila”
  • German: “Yola”
  • Greek: “Γιόλα”
  • Gujarati: “યોલા”
  • Hausa: “Jahar Yola”
  • Hausa: “yola”
  • Hausa: “Yola”
  • Hindi: “योला”
  • Igbo: “Yola”
  • Indonesian: “Yola”
  • Italian: “Yola”
  • Japanese: “ヨラ”
  • Kannada: “ಯೋಲಾ”
  • Korean: “욜라”
  • Latvian: “Jola”
  • Lithuanian: “Jola”
  • Malay: “Yola”
  • Marathi: “योला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yola (Nigeeria)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yola”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yola”
  • Norwegian: “Yola”
  • Persian: “یولا، نیجریه”
  • Polish: “Yola”
  • Portuguese: “Yola”
  • Romanian: “Yola, Nigeria”
  • Romanian: “Yola”
  • Russian: “Йола”
  • Sinhala: “යෝලා”
  • Slovenian: “Yola”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یولا، نیجریه”
  • Spanish: “Yola”
  • Swahili: “Yola, Nigeria”
  • Swahili: “Yola”
  • Swedish: “Yola”
  • Tamil: “யோலா”
  • Telugu: “యోలా”
  • Thai: “ยอลลา”
  • Turkish: “Yola”
  • Tyap: “Yola”
  • Ukrainian: “Йола”
  • Urdu: “یولا، نائجیریا”
  • Vietnamese: “Yola”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yola, Adamawa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yola”
  • Yoruba: “Yola”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Yola”. Photo: Nwuanyi, CC BY-SA 2.0.